MinnPost column on "rampant, breathless, fear-mongering rhetoric" on mammography

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More on the reactions to the US Preventive Services Task Force mammography recommendations. Susan Perry writes on MinnPost.com about:

"... the rampant, breathless fear-mongering rhetoric that has framed much of the media's response to the recommendations. ...


On ABC's daytime talk show "The View," co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck made the stunning claim that the recommendations were "gender genocide."


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